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Definition of Mouth harp

1. Noun. A small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mouth Harp

Literary usage of Mouth harp

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journal of American Folk-lore by American Folklore Society (1920)
"Giggling, embarrassed, and protesting that she couldn't "sing ner dance neither good enough fur her," Viney was persuaded to take her mouth-harp from her ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1905)
"... 1901, Back was observed walking along the right of way of the defendant from the direction of Orange toward Spotswood, playing a mouth- harp. ..."

3. West African Studies by Mary Henrietta Kingsley (1901)
"strange scratching-vibrating sound, which you hear down South, and on Fernando Po, of the excruciating mouth harp, and so on, all accompanied by the voice. ..."

4. Popular Science Monthly (1906)
"... mouth harp,' and consider it very ancient, and with some reason, for it is found among the Ainos, the original inhabitants of Japan, ..."

5. The Journal of American Folk-lore by American Folklore Society (1920)
"Giggling, embarrassed, and protesting that she couldn't "sing ner dance neither good enough fur her," Viney was persuaded to take her mouth-harp from her ..."

6. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1905)
"... 1901, Back was observed walking along the right of way of the defendant from the direction of Orange toward Spotswood, playing a mouth- harp. ..."

7. West African Studies by Mary Henrietta Kingsley (1901)
"strange scratching-vibrating sound, which you hear down South, and on Fernando Po, of the excruciating mouth harp, and so on, all accompanied by the voice. ..."

8. Popular Science Monthly (1906)
"... mouth harp,' and consider it very ancient, and with some reason, for it is found among the Ainos, the original inhabitants of Japan, ..."

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